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The American Peace Society is a pacifist group founded upon the initiative of William Ladd, in New York City, May 8, 1828. It was formed by the merging of many state and local societies, from New York, Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, of which the oldest, the New York Peace Society, dated from 1815. Ladd was an advocate of a "Congress and High Court of Nations." The society organized peace conferences and regularly published a periodical entitled Advocate of Peace. The Society was only opposed to wars between nation states; it did not oppose the American Civil War, regarding the Union's war as a "police action" against the "criminals" of the Confederacy.〔Peter Brock, ''Pacifism in the United States: from the colonial era to the First World War''. Princeton University Press, 1968 (p. 691).〕 〔Valarie H. Ziegler,''The advocates of peace in antebellum America'' Mercer University Press, 2001 ISBN 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「American Peace Society」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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